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01.31.12 Macworld 2012
01.25.12 The Value of a Handshake
01.19.12 An SDK for Writers
01.18.12 How I Test Ideas (Or: Discerning Good From Great)
01.12.12 It’s Just Stuff
01.11.12 Companies who Spam Their Best Customers
01.09.12 Baby Software
01.06.12 Brian Stucki and Macminicolo’s Sweet Mac Setups
01.03.12 Fun With Predictions
12.30.11 The Best ______ of 2011
12.22.11 A Long-Time Apple Nerd’s Review of the Galaxy Nexus and First Experience With Android
12.19.11 iPhone Coffee Apps
12.16.11 24 Hours with a Galaxy Nexus: First Impressions
12.13.11 Social Apps
12.09.11 A Few Thoughts on the New, New Twitter
12.02.11 A Review of the Doxie Go
11.30.11 Sweet App: DropVox
11.29.11 A Hack to Get Back “Save As”
11.28.11 Simple Social Networks
11.23.11 A Few Things I am Grateful For
11.17.11 The Kindle Touch
11.15.11 Jawbone UP Review
11.11.11 Scalability and Maintenance
11.04.11 Andrew Pepperrell’s Sweet Mac Setup
11.03.11 Thoughts on Apple’s Cards App and Service
10.26.11 Thoughts on Siri and Devices the Size of an iPod nano
10.24.11 Regarding the Condition of a 17-Month Old, Well-Used, iPhone 4
10.21.11 Duncan Davidson’s Sweet Mac Setup
10.20.11 Using Siri to Add Reminders to a Shared List
10.17.11 iPhone 4S Review
10.12.11 Exciting and Ambitious
10.12.11 Apple’s Fourth Interface
10.10.11 Sans-Qwikster
10.06.11 3rd-Party Family
10.05.11 Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish
10.04.11 Geek Dad
09.28.11 Why There Are More Than Two Kindle Models
09.28.11 The Kindle Fire
09.26.11 Fantastic 4
09.23.11 Pat Dryburgh’s Sweet Mac Setup
09.22.11 A Quick Guide to Common Miscapitalizations of Tech Names
09.20.11 You Can’t Buy Word of Mouth
09.16.11 Federico Viticci’s Sweet Mac Setup
09.14.11 Sweet App: Goodfoot for iPhone
09.12.11 Regarding T-Shirt Shipments
09.09.11 Apple’s Four-Year Product Rollout
09.07.11 Sweet App: Airfoil for Mac
09.06.11 Leapfrogs
09.02.11 Garrett Murray’s Sweet Mac Setup
09.01.11 August Recap
09.01.11 The Future of Technology
08.31.11 Sweet App: Hues for Mac
08.30.11 Equal Parts Art and Logic
08.29.11 The Amazon Tablet
08.26.11 Daniel Bogan’s Sweet Mac Setup
08.25.11 Culture
08.24.11 “Consuming Content”
08.19.11 Thomas Brand’s Sweet Newton Setup
08.18.11 What to do With 245,000 TouchPads
08.15.11 The Morning of the Week
08.12.11 T-Shirts Now Available
08.10.11 Thoughts on the iPhone 5 Mockups
08.08.11 Big News
08.05.11 Rogie King’s Sweet Mac Setup
08.03.11 Guts and Glory: A Review of the MacBook Air
08.01.11 We Just Want to Read
07.25.11 Diary of a TouchPad Owner
07.21.11 The Difference Between the Dual-Core i5 and i7 MacBook Air
07.20.11 OS X Lion
07.18.11 Reading on the iPad
07.11.11 Everything Requires Maintenance
07.06.11 The HP TouchPad 1.0
06.30.11 Likability
06.28.11 OopsieFocus Script
06.23.11 AeroPress
06.21.11 Apple’s Mac App Store Lineup
06.20.11 A Tale of Two Inboxes: RSS and Twitter
06.16.11 The Right Price
06.15.11 Off-Site Backups
06.13.11 My Trip to WWDC 2011
06.07.11 The WWDC 2011 Keynote
06.02.11 Dialvetica
05.28.11 Q&A with Chad Sellers, One of the Few Indie Mac Devs in the Amazon Mac Downloads Store
05.27.11 Answering Reader’s Questions About Writing shawnblanc.net Full Time
05.26.11 Balancing Think and Feel
05.25.11 Writing a Weblog Full-Time
05.24.11 An Average Day at shawnblanc.net HQ
05.23.11 An Ode to Software
05.22.11 A Week-Long, In-Depth Look at How Writing This Site Full-Time is Going
05.19.11 Cloudy With a Chance of Music
05.18.11 My Next Mac Will Be…
05.16.11 Standing at My Desk
05.14.11 The Three Reasons I Use OmniFocus
05.11.11 Previous Entries
05.10.11 Voice
05.09.11 The Phonetic Field
05.05.11 Fantastical Preview
05.02.11 iCloud Predictions
04.28.11 Using the iPhone As My Only Camera
04.21.11 News.me: The Amalgamation of Two Rising Trends
04.20.11 App Emails
04.13.11 Tweetbot’s Got Personality
04.12.11 Is Your Site Missing its Custom WebClip Icon?
04.07.11 Austin Kleon on “Farming”
04.05.11 Membership Update
04.04.11 Great Expectations
03.30.11 Instacast
03.28.11 The Value of Twitter
03.22.11 My Growing To-Do List for shawnblanc.net Beginning April 4
03.18.11 Steve Offutt’s Sweet Mac Setup
03.16.11 Getting the Best Use Out of the iPad’s Side Switch
03.14.11 What Makes a Great Tech Writer
03.09.11 Pre-Launch iPad 2 Miscellany
03.08.11 So, How’s the Membership Thing Going So Far?
03.07.11 A Quick Way to Get Back on Focus
03.02.11 My iPad 2 Prediction
02.28.11 The Story Behind the Shawn Today Broadcast
02.23.11 Membership Drive and Giveaway
02.22.11 A Quick Update
02.22.11 Beginning
02.15.11 Fanatics
02.08.11 Henri Nouwen on Writing
02.08.11 More on Writing (or: A Case Against Editing)
02.07.11 Writing vs. Writing
02.02.11 Ideas that Spread, Win
02.01.11 Supporting the Independents
01.31.11 Rising Early
01.29.11 Idea: OmniFocus Aid: A Capture Utility for the Mac
01.25.11 My Sister is Getting Married
01.24.11 More Ideas Than Time, but More Time Than Focus
01.20.11 That Was Fun
01.19.11 Blast from the Past Link Day
01.19.11 What’s Better Than Productivity in the Office?
01.17.11 Trusted Advisors
01.13.11 How to Pronounce “Blanc”
01.11.11 Verizon’s iPhone
01.07.11 The Mac App Store and the Increasing Simplification of OS X
01.05.11 The Best New Mac and iOS Software of 2010
12.28.10 iPhone’s Group Messaging in iOS 4
12.25.10 A Few Apps You May Want to Get for That New iPod or iPad of Yours
12.07.10 Making a Great Cup of French Press Coffee
12.04.10 Shawn Blanc’s 2010 Professional Gift Guide for That Nerdy, Design-Savvy, Coffee-Loving Writer in Your Life
12.03.10 Reeder and the Keyboard
11.19.10 A Charlie Brown Christmas Station
11.12.10 Jorge Quinteros’ Sweet Mac Setup
10.25.10 A Sledgehammer Called OmniFocus
10.22.10 Aaron Mahnke’s Sweet Mac Setup
10.16.10 Sponsorship Opportunities
10.15.10 Nicholas Felton’s Sweet Mac Setup
10.11.10 Announcing RSS Feed Sponsorships
10.08.10 Iain Broome’s Sweet Mac Setup
10.06.10 Briefly on OmniFocus
10.04.10 The Potential of MobileMe
10.01.10 Dave Caolo’s Sweet Mac Setup
09.27.10 (dv)
09.24.10 Brett Kelly’s Sweet Mac Setup
09.21.10 How I Write an Article
09.19.10 Recipe for Banana Wonderful
09.17.10 Mike Rundle’s Sweet Mac Setup
09.15.10 Inbox Zero
09.13.10 Content Distribution, Metrics of Impact, and Advertising
09.10.10 Justin Blanton’s Sweet Mac Setup
09.07.10 An iPad Buyer’s Guide and Other FAQs
09.03.10 David Chartier’s Sweet Mac Setup
08.30.10 All You Need is Simplenote
08.27.10 Jonathan Christopher’s Sweet Mac Setup
08.26.10 What Most Writers Do at Their Beginnings
08.24.10 Keeping Mint’s Unique Referrers List Clean and Useful
08.23.10 An Interview with Neven Mrgan
08.20.10 Leo Babauta’s Sweet Mac Setup
08.18.10 ttttask
08.13.10 John Carey’s Sweet Mac Setup
08.06.10 Phil Coffman’s Sweet Mac Setup
08.03.10 Regarding 1Password, Yojimbo, Things, and Apps That Do Not Sync via the Cloud
08.02.10 Go Gowalla
07.31.10 Happy Birthday, Nate
07.30.10 How I Order an Americano
07.12.10 What’s in my Back Pack
07.08.10 Being Awesome or Being Professional
07.06.10 Life at Home Without Wi-Fi
07.01.10 July 2nd
06.25.10 From Five Bars to Four, to Three, to Two, to One
06.21.10 A Brief Review of iOS 4
06.16.10 The Linked List is the Comments
06.13.10 Which Device for Which Task?
06.10.10 iPhone 4 Miscellany
06.02.10 My AT&T Wireless Data Usage
05.04.10 MarsEdit Icon Evolution
04.11.10 Diary of an iPad Owner
04.05.10 Network Speed Tests on my Three Devices
04.04.10 An Initial Miscellany of the iPad
03.25.10 Mr. Hines and the Unpublished, Unfinished Interviews
03.06.10 Attention, Trust, and Advertising
03.05.10 Purposeful Mentorship
03.01.10 iPhone’s Missing Feed Reader
02.26.10 The Typewriter and the Shotgun
02.24.10 First Thoughts on Dropbox After 24 Hours of Use By a Guy Who Doesn’t Need to Share Files Between Multiple Computers
02.23.10 Regarding Dropbox, Backups, SSDs, Remote Storage, and my MacBook Pro’s Clicking HDD
02.22.10 Share This Post on Twitter
02.12.10 The Self-Proclaimed Lame Mac Setup of Sean Sperte, but I Think It’s Pretty Sweet
02.08.10 A Job Should Also Be an Education
02.05.10 Reader’s Setup: Tyler Galpin
02.04.10 How to Disable FeedBurner From Uglifying Your Clean URLs In Order to Track Clicks as a Traffic Source in Google Analytics
01.15.10 Reader’s Setup: Sherród Faulks
01.13.10 An Amalgamation of Predictions and Questions Regarding the Apple Tablet
01.05.10 Jailbreak Addendum
01.04.10 Jailbreak
12.15.09 Pastebot: A Copy and Paste Playground
12.13.09 Reader’s Setup: John Rust
12.06.09 What to Get for That Nerdy, Design-Savvy, Coffee-Loving, Snowboarding, Person in Your Life
12.05.09 Reader’s Setup: Adrian Hanft
12.03.09 Magic Mouse Miscellany
11.29.09 Building a New Desk Is So Much More Fun (And Inexpensive) Than Buying One
11.27.09 Reader’s Setup: Justin Pennington
10.26.09 Reader’s Setup: Stephen Hackett
10.21.09 Frequently Used Keyboard Shortcuts From My Day
10.07.09 Good Morning
10.06.09 A Pretty Good Script for Creating a Yojimbo Bookmark From Safari, With Tags, Comments, and Growl Support
10.01.09 Reader’s Setup: Patrick Rhone
09.25.09 Reader’s Setup: Grant Blakeman
09.20.09 The Omega Karate Student Creed
09.18.09 Reader’s Setup: Michael Bester
09.13.09 Yojimbo, and The Case for Anything Buckets
09.11.09 Reader’s Setup: Toby Leftly
09.07.09 The Software Sweet Spot
09.04.09 Reader’s Setup: Ryan Gonzalez
09.03.09 Relocating and Resizing the LaunchBar Bar
09.02.09 A Better One-on-One Form
08.31.09 Snow Leopard Miscellany
08.29.09 Ordinary and Uncomfortable
08.28.09 Reader’s Setup: Chris Bowler
08.24.09 USS Midway in San Diego Circa 2008
08.22.09 MailToYojimbo Script, With Tags Input and Growl Notification
08.21.09 Reader’s Setup: Josh Farmer
08.17.09 The Link Post
08.15.09 Reader’s Setup: Ian P. Hines
08.08.09 Testing a New Design for Link Posts in the shawnblanc.net Feed
08.06.09 Reader’s Setup: Adam Keys
07.30.09 Reader’s Setup: Jeff Nouwen
07.28.09 My Dock
07.27.09 Reader’s Setup: Jay Torres
07.25.09 Reader Setup: Gordon Barr
07.21.09 Reader Setup: Tim Van Damme
07.19.09 Building ‘For an iPhone, By an iPhone’
07.08.09 Reader Setup: Julian Schrader
07.06.09 Reader Setup: David Appleyard
06.29.09 Reader Setup: Kevin Rodgers
06.24.09 An Invitation for Reader’s Mac Setups
06.21.09 Sweet Mac Setup: Sebastiaan de With
06.17.09 Fever Really is That Hot
06.12.09 Sweet Mac Setup: Shaun Inman
06.10.09 Sweet Mac Setup: Jon Hicks
06.03.09 Sweet Mac Setup: Scott McNulty
06.02.09 Sweet Mac Setup: Christina Warren
05.31.09 The Sweet Mac Setup Series: Mark Jardine
05.28.09 Suggested Reading
05.28.09 The Ideal iPhone
05.27.09 Josephine
05.18.09 A Broad Array of iPhone Keyboards
05.04.09 A Brief Comparison of Font and Background Colors Rendered Across Major Browsers in Mac OS X
04.07.09 A Shave and a Haircut
04.06.09 A Very Tall Header
03.09.09 Happy Monday
03.07.09 Daring Serif Style for NetNewsWire
03.01.09 iPhone’s Misplaced Decline Button?
02.24.09 Doubt is Torture
01.30.09 Twitter Plugins for WordPress
01.28.09 A Review of Two Things: One For the Mac and One For iPhone
01.24.09 Slight Updates
01.14.09 It’s No Totebag
01.13.09 RSS Feed Subscription Drive
01.08.09 Thingsday
01.07.09 Regarding Feedback
12.05.08 Champ
11.23.08 Stocking Stuffer 2.2
11.09.08 The iTunes Genius
11.05.08 Ads Powered by Fusion
09.13.08 My Own Archives
09.11.08 What Happens When You Let a Complete Stranger Hold Your iPhone
09.10.08 Thank You Merlin Mann
08.03.08 Leading an In-House Design Team
07.17.08 iPhone 2.0 OS Addendum
07.13.08 Marketing Shoes
07.11.08 iPhone App Store and 2.0 OS Initial Miscellany
07.10.08 Why Wait?
07.02.08 The Task Notebook
06.08.08 Refreshing the iPhone Tips & Tutorials Page
06.07.08 WWDC Predictions
05.16.08 (mt)
04.29.08 Perpetual Devotion
04.09.08 Linkage
03.26.08 News
03.13.08 Three Generations of Macs (Unofficially) Benchmarked
03.12.08 Quicksilver and Spaces
03.10.08 Pro Portable: A Review of the New MacBook Pro
03.07.08 I Bought a MacBook Pro
03.03.08 The Daniel Jalkut Interview
02.28.08 Via Thumbs
02.22.08 The Journey
02.18.08 John Gruber: A Mix of the Technical, the Artful, the Thoughtful, and the Absurd
02.15.08 Results From the Short Shawnblanc.net Survey
02.10.08 SuperDuper, Time Machine, and Bulletproof Backups
02.10.08 A Response to An Open Letter to the Blogosphere
02.06.08 Interview with Cameron “i/o” Hunt
01.31.08 MarsEdit: Helping the Personal Publishing Revolution
01.25.08 Dear Readers,
01.21.08 Coda: The One-Window Wonder
01.15.08 Writing a Great Review
01.11.08 Behind the Scenes of ShawnBlanc.net
01.10.08 The NNW Sites Drawer
01.07.08 More Realigning on sbnet
01.04.08 Briefly on Flow and its Icon
01.02.08 Transmit
12.26.07 Why We Began Blogging
12.20.07 5 Things to Do In Colorado While On Christmas Vacation
12.16.07 The Full Mint-y
12.14.07 Refreshed
12.13.07 Dear Readers,
12.09.07 NetNewsWire: Just What You Wanted
12.09.07 A Series of Reviews: Some of The Greatest Software Available For Your Mac
12.04.07 Creative Design Poverty
11.26.07 iPhone Christmas Wallpapers
11.16.07 Every Freelancer Ought to Publish a Weblog
11.14.07 Other Time Machine Names
11.13.07 Really Simple
11.12.07 Tours in Repose
11.11.07 How to Repair the Empty Keychain Passwords in Leopard
11.06.07 Elements of Style: My Office
11.05.07 Slightly on Substantive Content
11.02.07 Out of the States
10.23.07 The Preemptive Switch to Dock-on-the-Left
10.21.07 IKEA Galant Series
10.01.07 After One Week With an iPhone
09.28.07 My Unique iPhone Update Experience
09.26.07 Aqua Wallpapers for iPhone
09.22.07 Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations
09.18.07 The Sort of Impact I Want to Make Through Design
09.17.07 The Dan Pitts Interview
09.14.07 Why I have an un-activated iPhone sitting on my desk
09.05.07 The September 5th Tweets (and the Words ‘iPhone’ and ‘iPod’ Thrown Into the Title for Good Measure)
09.02.07 Content Please
08.28.07 Welcome
08.22.07 The Brent Simmons Interview
08.20.07 The Glenn Wolsey Interview
08.17.07 Organization, Roll Top Desks, and Basketball
08.14.07 Blog Comments Are Like Cash
08.12.07 The Greg Storey Interview
08.09.07 The Ideal .Mac Service, or: If I Were in Charge of .Mac
08.09.07 Personally Reinventing the Weblog Publishing Stereotype
08.08.07 Apple’s New Wireless Keyboard
08.07.07 Post Announcement
08.07.07 Apple’s 08-07-07 Announcement
08.07.07 The “To Watch” Folder
08.06.07 Slimming Down my Feed Subscriptions (or RSS: Richard Simmons Style)
08.03.07 Freelancing 101: Attention to Detail
08.01.07 A Problem and A Solution: shawnblanc.net moves to MediaTemple
07.31.07 Freelancing 101: How to Get Hired
07.30.07 Freelancing 101
07.27.07 Random Screenshots From My Day
07.27.07 Be a Better Designer
07.24.07 How To: Fix the little legs on your PowerBook Power Supply
07.21.07 iPhone Tips & Tutorials: A semi-comprehensive link list
07.19.07 Thirty Months with a 12-inch PowerBook G4
07.17.07 Why Apple Will Never Make a 12-inch MacBook Pro
07.16.07 My Five Favorite Apps as a Multi-Mac User
07.13.07 Email
07.12.07 The Sean Sperte Interview
07.11.07 Backup
07.09.07 Seven Weblogs too well Designed to Read via RSS
07.06.07 Pixelated Ecstasy and Breakneck Processors – My Mac Pro Workstation
07.04.07 Why Daring Fireball is Comment Free
07.03.07 10 Awesome Hi-Resolution Desktop Wallpapers
07.03.07 Thank You
07.02.07 Grand Opening
07.01.07 The Truth About Good Leaders
06.29.07 The Mullet
06.29.07 The Unfamiliar
06.29.07 Paint
06.28.07 Comments (a lack-thereof)
06.28.07 Hello world!